The past perfect tense is used to show that an action was completed before another past action or event, while the past perfect continuous tense is used to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past.
Here are a few examples of each tense:
Past perfect tense:
1. She had left the office before I arrived.
2. They had eaten dinner when we called them.
3. He had finished the project by the deadline.
Past perfect continuous tense:
1. They had been playing soccer for an hour before it started raining.
2. She had been working at that company for two years before she got promoted.
3. We had been driving for six hours before we finally reached our destination.
can anyone plz tell me what's the differences between past perfect tense and past perfect continuous tense?and tell me few examples of each one?
Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. The past perfect tense is to show that something "had happened" prior to another event in the past. It is made up of the auxiliary (helping) verb "to have" plus the past participle, usually ending in "ed." Here are some examples: I had studied, he had begun, we had written, they had finished. Notice that some past participles are irregular, not ending in "ed" such as "written, begun."
The past perfect continuous tense is used
to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. Here are some examples: I had been studying, he had been beginning, we had been writing, they had been finishing. This is made up of the helping verb "to have" in the past + "been" + the present participle, ending in "ing."
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